ANNIVERSARIES
1969-The Who give their first complete live performance of the Rock opera Tommy at a show in Dolton, England.
1970-Paul McCartney, in a London Evening Standard interview, criticizes Phil Spector's arrangement of "The Long and Winding Road." "I couldn't believe it. I would never have female voices on a Beatles record." He says no one asked him about adding harps, horns and orchestra or choir to the original tracks.
1974-Roger Daltrey begins shooting his starring role in the Ken Russell film of The Who's rock opera Tommy.
1976-A show by Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in Clearwater, Florida is taped for a possible T-V broadcast. But Dylan scraps the footage and goes with a later show taped in Fort Collins, Colorado.
1978-The Blues Brothers make their debut in a skit on Saturday Night Live. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd introduce the show by performing "Hey Bartender" with Paul Shaffer as Don Kirshner.
1978-Bob Marley And The Wailers perform at the One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica. It was Marley's first public appearance in Jamaica since being wounded in an assassination attempt a year and a half earlier.
1979-The Rolling Stones played two concerts for the blind at the Civic Auditorium in Oshawa, Ontario. The shows were done in lieu of a jail sentence for guitarist Keith Richards, who was convicted of heroin possession in Toronto two years earlier.
1993-The Who's Rock Opera Tommy opened on Broadway.
2008-After postponing two shows in the wake of organist Danny Federici's death, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band resume their U-S tour. The show opens with a video tribute to Federici, and then keyboardist Roy Bittan plays the intro to "Backstreets" while a spotlight shines on the unmanned organ where Federici usually stood.
2013-Richie Havens, who rose to fame as the opening act at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, died following a heart attack at the age of 72. During his lengthy career he scored just one Billboard Top 40 hit, a cover of George Harrison's "Here Comes The Sun", which reached #16 in 1971.
BORN TODAY
1937-Jack Nitzsche
producer, songwriter. Produced The Rolling Stones, Neil Young and The Walker Brothers.
1944-Howard Wyeth
drummer who has worked with Bob Dylan, Don McLean, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell. He died of a heart attack 27th March 1996.
1950-Peter Frampton
The Herd, Humble Pie, solo
1951-Paul Carrack
The British singer-keyboardist sang lead on Ace's "How Long," Squeeze's "Tempted" and Mike & the Mechanics' "All I Need Is a Miracle." He had his own Top 10 hit in 1988 with "Don't Shed a Tear."
